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a soldier speaks out
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a soldier speaks out |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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"I'm so pissed off, I just want to choke someone out..." A soldier speaks out. The reality... And this is the way we continue to seek a solution to world problems? When will we have the guts to spend as much time and money to find a gentler way to embrace one another with understanding and equality, when will we spend as much on Love as we spend on weapons of destruction, mass or small? A soldier speaks out... but the commanders of the world apparently are not listening. |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Can't say I blame you. Poets against the war is redundant |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, that quote is what the soldier said. What I said can't be posted here. LOL Thanks for the reply, Richard. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Yes Kacy, I agree, sometimes they don't seem to listen and if they do they chose not to hear. Hugs gal. I am so grateful you speak your mind and hit us in the solar plexus so often.  |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thanks, Donna. I try so hard to be gentle, but some days? Well, some days, I fail. thanks for being here, I appreciate your replies. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Kacy there is time and place for all things gentle or otherwise. You have to write what your heart feels and I for one am damn glad that you do!  The greatest beauty on earth, is |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Another soldier once lamented.. "I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest...." "I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust." "I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed." "On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practiced on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share....." (Excerpts-A Soldier's Declaration SIEGFRIED SASSOON-July 1917 In other words, said in a different time...same subject ""I'm so pissed off, I just want to choke someone out..." Good job, Kacy... _____________ice/ford ><> |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Good Jobber both Kacy and Ice Enjoyed!!!! |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
enjoyed |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
You continue to say the things that need saying. Look out, windmills, here comes Kacy!! Good job. Ken Through rubble and trouble and dark of night |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thanks to each of you, for reading and commenting. Ford? Thank you so much for your input! I must say, such thoughts are apparently timeless truths. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing...James |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Kacy, I understand and get angry over the same thing. Going to see a movie next week called, Indigo. Have you heard of it? Maybe, this next generation will get it right and help us get there, too.?  ....jo |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Thanks, James. Thanks, Jo. I'm not familiar with that title. Yes, perhaps another generation will find ways we have overlooked? |
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bbent Senior Member
since 2001-01-07
Posts 521Alaska |
good write...wonder if they'd listen if they were the ones in the deserts and jungles doin and being killed instead of sitting safely in their fancy leather chairs or well hid in caves and discos out of harms way...soldiers being just the pawns in thier game,supposedly beleiving ours is not to reason why ,ours is just to do and die. Live like it's your last day... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Hey Ray, thanks for your reply.  Yep, what if each of the world's leaders had to don a uniform, go into battle, PHYSICALLY LEAD the troops, so to speak? I can't help but think they might find other solutions. |
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